Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. What was the geography of ancient Greece? According to current knowledge, 130 million years ago, ...

Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land ...

Greece: The Classical Approach. 2 minute read. TIME. March 22, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... Then he became fascinated by references to the Chalcidice peninsula in Strabo’s Geography.

THE want of a short, popular history of classical geography is one which has been long felt, and there is no doubt that the little volume before us will help to fill it. The great work by the late ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land. Sarah Pothecary’s new translation is a colossus of roads ...